Join us at our Volunteer Appreciation Event!

What: A Store to Door Volunteer Appreciation Event
When: Saturday, April 25 9:00 to 10:30 a.m.
Where: Center for Positive Aging, 1820 NE 40th Ave, Portland, OR 97212

What to expect: Volunteer Bingo, Minute-to-Win-It challenges, Garden spoon craft, Breakfast, and a Group photo!

Questions? Email Linda@StoretoDoorofOregon.org

You are invited!

Join us for a morning of breakfast, laughs, and a little friendly competition! We’ll have coffee and pastries, team challenges, a garden craft station, and a small gift to take home.

RSVP:

We have been having some issues getting our form to work–if you do get an error message, you can send us an email at Linda@StoretoDoorofOregon.org to RSVP instead.

Tickets on Sale for Nourish to Flourish 2026!

You are invited...

We are excited to announce that tickets are officially on sale for Store to Door’s Annual Dinner & Fundraiser, Nourish to Flourish!

Join us Thursday, May 28th, at 6:00 p.m. at Nordia House for an evening of great food and drinks, wonderful company, and the chance to make a real difference for homebound seniors and adults with disabilities right here in Portland!

Event information:

When:
Thursday, May 28th 2026
From 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.

Where:
Nordia House
8800 SW Oleson Road, PORTLAND

Dress:
Business casual

Tickets:
$125 per person
$900 table of 8

Dinner Menu:
Catered by Broder Söder

Spring greens salad with roasted shallot vinagrette (vegan) (GF)
Slow braised chicken thigh with soy and ginger marinade, sweet and tangy tamari glaze (GF, DF)
Wild mushroom risotto with white wine garlic mushroom pruee, rice, wild mushrooms (vegan, GF)
Roasted asparagus with lemon and Garlic (vegan, GF)
Brunede kartofler carmelized potatoes and parsley (vegetarian, GF)
Strawberry mousse (GF)
Bread with butter (DF)
Wine, beer, and ligonberry lemonade

A Cozy Night of Community at Hygge Happy Hour

A Cozy Night of Community at our Hygge Happy Hour

What a wonderful, affirming evening!

On February 12th, we gathered to celebrate the incredible volunteers, donors, and partners who make our program work possible. Hosted by our generous partners at NW Natural, the evening was filled with cozy, casual connection; good food and drinks, puzzle and coloring stations, a gratitude tree, and even a therapy basset hound petting station (Shoutout Tucker to ).

It was a joyful reminder that community is at the center of everything we do. Thank you to everyone who joined us; your support makes a direct impact on the lives of those in need in our community!

🗓️ P.S. Mark your calendars! Our Nourish to Flourish Benefit Supper is May 28th. Tickets will be on sale soon!

Store to Door’s Community Impact Social Hour

Earlier this month, Store to Door hosted our first Community Impact Social Hour and Briefing. The event was designed to foster discussion about the complexity of needs facing low-income homebound seniors living in our community. We are proud to be part of a community of nonprofit service providers that are committed to working together to support our most vulnerable seniors.

Together, we focus on reducing the challenges and barriers of remaining independent.

At the social hour event, we were pleased to share video comments from Senator Ron Wyden (an early Store to Door volunteer), underscoring the importance of our ongoing work of improving public policy and service delivery to support our seniors. Urban gerontologist Alan DeLaTorre, PhD, spoke about the changing demographics in our senior population, as well as the economic, social, and structural challenges that put pressure on our aging population. He also underscored the strengths of seniors and talked briefly about how many seniors need targeted supportive services as they age.

The centerpiece of the evening was a panel presentation discussing the obstacles and opportunities associated with food access and security, housing stability, peer and social support, and access to quality healthcare. Here are just a few of the highlights.

Affirming that every human being deserves access to healthy and nutritious food
Helping seniors to maintain their housing is imperative as our community continues to be challenged to create affordable housing
Everyone needs social connections and peer supports to age with dignity
The shift towards a team approach to home healthcare and healthcare coordination improves health outcomes for seniors.

We are thankful that Store to Door is able to work in partnership with agencies like Northwest Pilot Project, Portland Open Bible Community Pantry, Villages NW, and Housecall Providers to address the needs of older adults. We look forward to taking the insights from events such as this one to begin building a collaborative network of organizations that can provide scaffolded services to seniors that will provide housing and food security, access to healthcare, and social connection.

Additionally, it is key in our support of our homebound members of our community that we reinforce their societal value. On our end, we will continue to expand our Resource Referral Program that contributes to these four areas such as yard care and home maintenance to reduce evictions and improve safety, transportation to provider appts and social interactions and value through community networks.

We were also honored to present our Helen Bernstein Leadership Award to longtime partner Kaiser Permanente! The award was accepted by Kaiser representative Betty Benson and recognizes their outstanding partnership with Store to Door in support of homebound seniors and adults living with disabilities! Huge thanks to Kaiser for their ongoing support of our program work, and their commitment to serving those in need in our community!

World Alzheimer’s Day

Did you know 1 in 11 adults is experiencing subjective cognitive decline, which is associated with Alzheimer’s? Did you know 1 in 6 adults in Oregon are Caregivers?

Here are a few warning signs of Alzheimer’s, and Tips on Caring for someone showing these signs:

Loss of initiative and interest in lifelong hobbies or ritual tasks. This could look like forgetting how to make a favorite meal or ignoring social obligations.

What can you do? Help keep interest in a hobby by doing the planning for your loved one. Try to make the activity more fun by playing music they enjoy!

Misplacing things and memory loss. This can be seen if there is a pattern of forgetting appointments, or putting regular objects in unusual places, like car keys in the refrigerator, or forgetting obligations and not remembering them later.

What can you do? Help them write down To-Do lists, appointments, and events in an accessible calendar; create a system of reminders: try writing down important reminders on sticky notes and placing them in highly visible places.

Change in personality. This can look like more extreme moods, especially feeling confusion, fear, or growing dependency on family or close friends.

What can you do? Reduce distractions: turn off the tv to help them focus, create routines, and supply simple instructions for them to follow. These tips may help them feel safe and enable them to live as independently as possible.

Do you have any experience with caring for someone with Alzheimer’s? Have you found any helpful tricks for caring for them? We’d love to hear about your experience and share it with other caregivers!

For more warning signs and information, visit http://www.alzresearch.org/warning-signs.cfm.

Store to Door’s Second Annual Giving Tree

On Friday, November 20th, an enthusiastic group of volunteers helped shop for holiday gifts as a part of Store to Door’s second annual Giving Tree event! Serving nearly 60 Store to Door clients, volunteers selected, wrapped, and made personal holiday cards for each of the gifts, which will be delivered in early december along with clients’ regular deliveries.

A warm thank you to Columbia Bank for sponsoring this event, which is looked forward to by clients and volunteers alike!

Support Store to Door on #GivingTuesday 2019!

Held each year on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving, #GivingTuesday affords us an opportunity to celebrate charitable giving, and to begin the holiday season by supporting those causes we feel strongly about. Since its inaugural year in 2012, #GivingTuesday has become a movement that celebrates and supports giving and philanthropy with events throughout the year and a growing catalog of resources.

We hope you will remember Store to Door this #GivingTuesday, and help us continue our work delivering nourishment, connection, and dignity to homebound seniors and people with disabilities here in the Portland area.

“I was going to the store about 6 weeks in between. Now, I can eat fresh fruits and vegetables every day.”
– Store to Door Client

Store to Door’s 2019 Donor Appreciation Event!

On Thursday June 20th, Store to Door hosted its annual donor appreciation event for donors, community partners, and corporate sponsors. More than 46 guests filled a beautiful gathering space at Stoel Rives in Southwest Portland, enjoying light refreshments and great company.

We are so grateful to have such a dedicated (and fun!) community of supporters to further our mission to bring nourishment, connection and dignity to Portland’s homebound seniors and adults living with disabilities.

Store to Door Earns 2019 Oregon Ethics in Business Award from Rotary Club of Portland

On May 22nd, Store to Door was awarded with an Oregon Ethics in Business Award at a banquet held at the Sentinel Hotel. For 16 years, businesses and nonprofit organizations have been spotlighted to showcase organizations doing the right thing for their customers, employers, and clients through all aspects of their operations.

Store to Door was one of three nonprofit organizations selected for the award, along with Free Geek and New Avenues for Youth. The event also featured keynote speaker Nigel Jaquiss, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from Willamette Week.

“Store to Door has a strong nearly 30-year track record of providing an efficient, affordable, and ethical service that is critical to the health and well-being of seniors and adults with disabilities. Not only do we continue to provide exceptional service to our clients, but as we’ve continued to grow and meet the demand of services, we have upheld our ethical practices and stayed true to our values of Nourishment, Connection, and Dignity, “ said Michael Beaty, Board President of Store to Door. “We are extremely proud to accept the Oregon Ethics in Business Award and invite the community to join us in helping seniors and adults with disabilities stay nourished and connected.”

“There are many businesses and nonprofits in Oregon and SW Washington that put business ethics as a top priority,” said Mike Rosenberg, Chairman, Oregon Ethics in Business Committee. “We are excited to hear from the 2019 recipients that have really gone above and beyond to lead our community.”

Oregon Ethics in Business Award honors those organizations and individuals who have demonstrated ethical business practice in its broadest interpretation: in the workplace, the marketplace, the environment, and the community. The award is hosted by The Rotary Club of Portland and presented by KGW Media Group.

Clothing Retailer Foundation Donates Profits to Store to Door

On March 7th, Portland-based boutique Foundation overflowed with friends and supporters of Store to Door , who gathered to enjoy an evening of food, wine, and shopping for a cause! The event kicked off a quarter-long partnership between the two organizations, during which time Foundation has committed 100% of their profits to Store to Door as their featured non-profit partner!

Foundation is a Portland-based boutique with a BIG mission: to champion a wide variety of social movements through a combination of fashion, philanthropy and community dialogue. Foundation donates 100 percent of profits and features ethical and socially conscious brands in its store.

Store to Door will be continue to be Foundation’s featured non-profit partner through June 5th, so be sure and stop by!